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Sophia of Wittelsbach

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Died
  
1238

Role
  
Agnes of Loon's daughter


Name
  
Sophia Wittelsbach

Mother
  
Agnes of Loon

Parents
  
Agnes of Loon

Sophia of Wittelsbach

Father
  
Otto I Wittelsbach, Duke of Bavaria

Spouse
  
Hermann I, Landgrave of Thuringia

Children
  
Henry Raspe, Landgrave of Thuringia, Louis IV, Landgrave of Thuringia

Grandchildren
  
Sophie of Thuringia, Duchess of Brabant

Similar People
  
Henry Raspe - Landgrav, Elizabeth of Hungary, Louis IV - Landgrave of Thurin, Andrew II of Hungary

Noble family
  
House of Wittelsbach

Sophia of Wittelsbach (1170-1238) was a daughter of Otto I Wittelsbach, who was Count Palatine and later Duke of Bavaria, and his wife Agnes of Loon.

In 1196, Sophia married Landgrave Hermann I of Thuringia; she was his second wife. They had the following children:

  • Irmgard (b. 1197), married in 1211 to Count Henry I of Anhalt
  • Louis IV (1200-1227)
  • Herman (1202-1216)
  • Conrad (1204-1247), grand master of the Teutonic Knights
  • Henry Raspe (1204-1247)
  • Agnes, married twice:
    1. in 1225 to Henry "the Profane" of Babenberg (1208-1228), a son of Margrave Leopold IV of Austria
    2. in 1229 to Duke Albert I of Saxony (c. 1175 – 1261)
  • References

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